The European Union as an Actor of the Global Climate Regime

In recent years, the concept of EU actorness has received renewed attention to make it less static, less descriptive, and more capable of explaining the real influence of the EU at the global level. There is a need for a new approach to capturing the external behaviour of the EU, which takes into account not only the legal and institutional characteristics of the EU but also the global context in which it operates. To this end, by adopting an international law perspective and calling into question the essence of the concept of EU actorness, the research aims to understand how and to what extent the EU contributes to the development and implementation of the global climate regime through an analysis of its contributions to the ongoing inter-regime systemic integration processes for climate change.